Laura Ling sentenced to 12 years
It's only remotely mongering related, but nevertheless:
When I browsed the news today I saw two American journalists have been sentenced to 12 years reeducation in North Korea. A certain Miss Euna Lee and then Miss Laura Ling. And the somehow the face of the latter looked a bit familiar. Looked it up a little and then:
Same Laura Ling as we had posted about here some while ago - [post]738398[/post]
As a reminder: Back then she tried to do a little report on the sex industry in China. While clumsy, naive and pretty much off the mark I found her piece of work pretty amusing back then. Maybe because it was so clumsy, naive and off the mark.
Seems she did not wise up too much since then and again got herself into troubles. No matter how she exactly got into that mess this time around but ending up as a political bargaining token of North Korea isn't exactly amusing anymore, no matter how I look at it.
No snarky remarks from me on that matter - my 100th post to Miss Ling and Miss Lee.